Barry Goldwater

What do you do before you’re the most important man in the United States of America? Some presidents are practically born into it, while others not so much. Ronald Reagan our 40th and one of our most prestigious presidents definitely did have the average life before he became president. Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to John Edward and Nelle (Wilson) Reagan on February 6th 1911, in Tampico Illinois. Growing up Reagan was typical boy. The Reagan family were devoted Roman Catholics and Liberals.…

by Clinton's. We know that Donald Trump won the election and Hillary Clinton lost. We don’t have spending records from Mid-October to election day so those numbers could change a little. We can go to the 1964 election with President Johnson vs Barry Goldwater. With President Johnsons ad of the nuclear bomb…

presidential election, where she found evidence of electoral fraud against Republican candidate Richard Nixon. She then volunteered to campaign for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in the U.S. presidential election of 1964. Rodham's early political development was shaped most by her high school history teacher, who introduced her to Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative, and by her Methodist youth minister, with whom…

It is a wise thing to note the presidents, just as kings, emperors, prime ministers, sultans and warlords, are humans. Lyndon B. Johnson was susceptible to fault as any other human being who’s ever risen to power. LBJ’s desire to be great was bolstered and hardened by the tragic circumstances in which he was brought into office. The fires in which his mettle was tested was a country in dire need of civil reform and a country terrified by the looming, or at least intimidating specter of global…

Social movements can be defined as a grouping of individuals or organizations which focus on political and social issues. Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, drafted and passed the Emancipation Proclamation which changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million slaves in the south from “slave” to “free, which was monumental for the African-American people. Fast forward about a century later racism was alive and well and prosed an issue for the social justice of African-Americans. The 1960’s were a…

A good example of how the Democratic Party’s industrial/agricultural ties can blow their free trade agenda off course comes from the trade policy of Harry Truman. Truman’s key achievement in this area is undoubtedly the signing of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1949. Recall that the GATT was negotiated directly after the Second World War, which is supposedly a period in which liberal trade politics were considered integral to a new peaceful and prosperous world order. Additionally…

It was the summer of 1789 and the Constitutional Convention had just finished its debate on a new governing document, which would be imperfect but audacious for it’s time. As, he walked down the streets of Philadelphia that day, Dr. Benjamin Franklin was stopped by a woman, who asked, “Sir, what form of government have you bequeath us?” to which Dr. Franklin replied, “a Republic, if you can keep it.” 227 years later, through a fratricidal war, the stains of slavery and Jim Crow, two world wars,…

Johnson was a well-established Texan politician and longtime Senate leader. In 1961, Johnson became Vice President to John F. Kennedy and succeeded him after he was assassinated. He then ran for a full term in the 1964 election, and won against Barry Goldwater. Johnson was a man with humble origins, but through his determination and intelligence he gained wealth and political influence. Johnson is one of the most underrated presidents because of his contributions through the Great Society, his…

In 1980 Republican candidate Ronald Reagan assumed the highest office in government, that of the presidency, defeating incumbent president Jimmy Carter in a decisive victory that saw him win in forty-four of the nation’s fifty states. Reagan secured 51% of the popular vote, and 489 electoral votes, making it abundantly clear that the populist New Right movement that propelled his ascension in politics would usher in a new age of conservatism for the troubled nation. Reagan’s victory in the…

opposed a civil rights legislation in 1960 and opposed racism. He denied having racist motives and after he changed his opposition to voting rights and fair housing laws. In 1964 Reagan endorsed the campaign of conservative presidential contender Barry Goldwater. Reagan would speak for him and revealed his fame through the…